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"Let" comes from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- [le:d], something like this:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/let-from-PIE-leh1d.wav
This root also developed into Albanian lodh [loð] “to tire”, something like this:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-leh1d-to-Albanian-lodh.wav
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